Table of Contents

Introduction: Personality Dynamics

I. PERSONALITY AND MEANING CONSTRUCTION IN SOCIAL CONTEXT

Knowledge, Appraisal, and Personality Dynamics, Daniel Cervone and Gregory Bartoszek.

Dialogical Self Theory in Practice: About Some Interesting Phenomena, Hubert J. M. Hermans and Piotr Ole?

The Construction of Meaning, Shulamith Kreitler

II. PERSONALITY PROCESSES IN A SOCIAL WORLD

The Relational Self: Transference as a Meaning-Making Mechanism, Susan M. Andersen and Elizabeth Przybylinski

Perceived Isolation, John T. Cacioppo and Louise C. Hawkley

Need and Ability in the Process of Knowledge Formation, Ma?gorzata Kossowska and Katarzyna Ja?ko

III. COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE DYNAMICS AND THE EMBODIED MIND

Social Anxiety and Performance, Michael W. Eysenck

Embodied Simulation and the Human Smile: Processing Similarities to Cultural Differences, Paula M. Niedenthal, Magdalena Rychlowska,and Piotr Szarota

Mental Dynamism and Its Constraints: Finding Patterns in the Stream of Consciousness, Robin R. Vallacher, Jay Michaels, Susan Wiese, Urszula Strawinska,and Andrzej Nowak

Name Index

Subject Index

About the Author

Daniel Cervone, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Margorzata Fajkowska, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities and Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Michael W. Eysenck, Roehampton University, Whitelands College, London, United Kingdom

Tomasz Maruszewski, Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland

Reviews

"This outstanding volume features exciting new developments in the scientific study of personality. It reflects the inevitable interdependencies between epistemic, social and motivational factors that jointly elucidate the fundamental antinomy of human change and stability. A stimulating and inspiring read." -- Arie W. Kruglanski, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park 2012